THE N W YORKER also making three new sails for her- a mainsail, a genoa, and a spinnaker- but on thIs afternoon McCullough wanted him to look at the mainsail she had used against Sovereign in 1964, and to advise him on which seemed to be the best of a selection of foresails. The crew came aboard Constellation at a pontoon dock off Minneford's Yacht Yard, on City Island-seven de- termined young men, college age or just post-college age, who would serve as the foredeck hands and winch grind- ers; Tom Young, the navigator, an affable, wiry man in his middle forties who is skipper of a race-winning Hood thirty-six-footer called Shearwater; Dick Goennel, an advertising salesman for }T achÜng, as boss of the foredeck, a job he had held on Cunstellation in 1964; George O'Day, a brightly lo- quacious expert who was going to be relIef helmsman to Mosbacher on In- trepid; McCullough, a tall, command- ing textile manufacturer, who, like the others, was putting business and family aside for the summer to partake in this obsession that is the rarefied summit of sailing; and, finally, Hood. He hopped up onto Constellation's high, crowned deck, where the crew were reeving sheets and stowing sails, and he prowled from one spot to another, bending to look at the downhaul on the boom, examining the headboard of the mainsail, checking the seams for any chafe they might have suffered in use or in being dragged along the rough, non-skid surface of the deck, and inserting four long battens in the batten pockets. When McCul10ugh asked about them, he said they were a highly flexible new type that he wanted to tryout. For a while, he stood and gazed at Constellation's mast-masts being an aspect of yacht design in which he believes there is no\\' more room for radical improvement than in saIls. When O'Ðay asked him what he was thinking, Hood saId he thought this mast could be a little thin- ner above the spreaders; in A ustraba he had <;een Dame Pattie's mast, and it was very clean. Hood spent the afternoon noticing things as ConstellatIon tacked down the Sound into a brisk, twenty-knot north- easterly-coming about, filling away, then coming about agaIn as McCul- lough gave hIs crew a workout. The noise was tremendous when Con- stellation tacked-wire whirring on wInch drums, the winches rattling, the winchmen ducking as the boom thrashed over, and the backstays pulsat- ing loudly as the whole boat throbbed 71 / V --{) : ...,: " , " ' " ;7' _ _ ' y,. ,e' \ :., , ,,' f , '. . . c U '- "ii ;;:(./ 1;" .. ,'" ì t _/ Ji1d f" ' ',v' '" :: 'x '.. ). T" " '. Vit.. J..<.:: . . . ........:.:.. ,.<;:: : r., 'y % f'.,..} · ' ' '- '$ J, i::, iL. '" <t 1 :!lie deJ< sdllum o/C(!oIktJ?<j .C(!k:æ4 þ mM<e tkn SOO 0/ & moj{ deðtMtt de4fjnJ./Y.OO. ! L ì çC = ?! { 328 MILLING ROAD. HOU-AND. MICHIGAN 49423 NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LOS ANGELES' SAN FRANCISCO · ST LOUIS PHILADELPHIA. DALLAS. ATLANTA · GRAND RAPIDS Ç" ! ^ \"j-(W *"; *,>& ,.. . .' *^ "" :,-f'.. , \:.::' "" ! - . .. .:,' . ? ." ,'.' .' . . ^ ',; .:." .....>-< . : , '>.-i- *( '(0; : }=: vc/* Xtøt -' Long on leisure, our wide-legged culottes of downy fleece-a blending of Amel@ triacetate-and-nylon. In tangy citrus colonngs of orange or lime. Dangling its own chain of mock tortoise shell discs about the waist. Lovely at-home thing for 8 to 16 sizes, at $23. Young Eite 0 Lingerie Collections Glad to fill mail and phone orders. I ::r::: >; "'òZ ;. . :"<'..:'; " --::' ...,.. -:. . ' -:.,.: )